Personal Mediation of Coping Behaviors among Individuals with Diverse Stress Mindset.

Through stress mindset, an individual perceives its implications. A literature review revealed that stress mindset may mediate the relationship between self-efficacy and coping style, and these connections may be amplified or attenuated by variables such as resilience, hardiness, and personality traits. Thus, the research aim is to identify the features of personality-mediated coping behaviors, particularly at various levels of stress mindset. The research object is the personality-mediated coping behaviors, while the research subject encompasses personality resources, coping strategies, and various stress mindsets. The overall research hypothesis posits that self-efficacy, hardiness, and resilience mediate the link between personality traits and coping strategies under different levels of stress mindset (SM), as an enhancer and an enervator, moderating the relationship between mediators, personality traits, and coping strategies. To achieve the research objective, the following tasks were performed: a study and analysis of existing literature on the relationship between stress mindset, coping strategies, and relevant personality resources; development of a structural model, plan, and conduct of empirical research; determination and interpretation of the presence and nature of relationships between the identified constructs. Based on the literature review, the structural equation modeling method was chosen, employing correlational analysis, simple linear regressions, and diagonally weighted least squares (DWLS) methods. Personality traits served as independent variables, while self-efficacy, resilience, hardiness, and coping strategies served as dependent variables. The results of statistical analysis demonstrated statistically significant effects of all personality traits on coping strategies, with extraversion and neuroticism showing the most significant effects. Personality resources, in various combinations but not collectively, potentially mediated the relationship between personality traits and specific coping strategies in the models. Stress mindset partially moderated the relationship of neuroticism, extraversion with several coping strategies, openness to experience with denial, agreeableness with humor, concentration, and expression of emotions, conscientiousness with self-efficacy with positive reframing, and hardiness with active coping. The sample was drawn from an academic environment. The findings suggest that the combination of personality traits and their mediation through the combination of personality resources may be important for predicting the tendency to use specific coping strategies. In future research, it is advisable to further examine the characteristics of the identified models of coping strategies, taking into account the inclusion of additional moderators and mediators not considered in this study. Keywords: coping strategies, personality traits, personality resources, self-efficacy, resilience, hardiness, stress mindset.